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I always read my manuals, usually when I'm in the "the office" in the morning. Even on my basic Tacoma I found a couple of cool features I probably wouldn't have stumbled upon.

I somewhat agree with you on the manual itch, at least for my daily, but we’re coming to a point where it won’t be an option anymore and I wanted to throw support to a manufacturer willing to still put a stick shift in a car. The Blackwings are a last hoorah for this type of car.

I have a 4BW and a ZL1. Granted the ZL1 and 5BW are different in a lot of ways, they do share the same powertrain. The LT4 is one hell of an engine as it has power almost everywhere. The exhaust note (especially with a manual transmission) is really something as well. If I didn't have the ZL1 I...

Turn the car on without starting the engine - on my manual it’s just pressing the start button for 5 seconds. Then adjust the mode to your quiet setting, push the clutch / brake and start her up. It just makes the startup process a bit longer. The valves open up when the car turns off as a...

This is my third manual GM vehicle with the rev match and being "gentle" without doing the neutral wiggle is the best way. Also let the RPMs come down a bit. In my ZL1 I end up turning off the rev match when I know it's going to misbehave, but the rev match button is the paddle shifter so it's a...

After reading all of the "it's loud on the outside" comments, I had my wife drive my 4BW semi-aggressively and it does make a pretty damn good sound on the outside with the exhaust on the loudest setting. The pops on the overrun sound really nice as well. It sounds good enough for me for my...

With EVs, the death of the manual and now this kill switch, my '24 4BW might be the last new car I buy tbh

Did anybody else’s come with these extra tabs? I’m assuming I need to pop out the lens to wrap it around properly, but wanted to make sure. Edit: these are the Lamin-X ones

Found a cyber yellow 4BW 6sp in transit to a dealership in NY a few weeks ago and put my deposit down right away. Took delivery on Sunday after being transported home to NC.